[Sca-cooks] Break the pot
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Oct 30 14:47:24 PDT 2009
This is from Delights for ladies 1609
33 - To candie Nutmegs or Ginger with an hard rock candy. Take one
pound of fine sugar, and eight spoonfuls of Rose-water, and the weight
of six pence of Gum Arabique, that is cleere: boyle them together to
such an height, as that, dropping some thereof out of a spoon, the
sirup doe rope and runne into the smallnesse of an haire: then put it
into an earthen pipkin; wherein place your Nutmegs, Ginger, or such
like: then stop it close with a sawcer, and lute it well with clay,
that not aire may enter: then keepe it in a hot place three weeks, and
it will candy hard. you must breake your pot with a hammer, for
otherwise you cannot get out your candy. You may also candy Orenges or
Lemmons in like sort, if you please.
Johnnae
On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Suey wrote:
I do not recall any English recipes calling for breaking those pots.
Do you?
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